"Brawny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... furniture van stopped in front of the fine house at the end of the town, where the colonel had made his stately home for so many years, and into its capacious maw brawny men packed, shoved, and kicked everything of his household goods that was worth while transporting to the far-away district near the borders of Russia, to which the deposed military autocrat was ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... chairs, or on the edges of the bunks with their legs a-dangle, their eyes interestedly upon the cook's operations, were half a dozen men, rough of garb, rough of hands, big, brawny, uncouth. As Conniston came into the room every pair of eyes left the cook to examine him swiftly, frankly. He paused a moment for the introduction Rawhide Jones would make. But Rawhide Jones had no idea of doing anything ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... (of roads, etc.) disvojo. Brand (fire) brulajxo. Brandish svingi. Brandy brando. Brasier fajrujo. Brass flava kupro. Brave brava. Brave bravulo. Brave kontrauxstari al. Bravery braveco. Bravo! brave! Brawl malpacego. Brawny muskola. Bray (ass) bleki. Bray (to pound) pisti. Brazen bronza. Breach brecxo. Bread pano. Bread (unleavened) maco. Breadth largxeco. Break rompi. Break off disrompi. Break, to pieces frakasi. Breakfast matenmangxi. Bream bramo. Breast brusto. Breast ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... from our Earth standards, a tremendous, brawny giant. Not spindly, like most Martians, this fellow, for all his seven feet of height, was almost heavy-set. He wore a plaited leather jerkin beneath his robe, and knee pants of leather out of which his lower legs showed as gray, hairy ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... implied audacity of imagination, dashing draughtsmanship, colossal scale, something demonic and decisive in execution.[233] The terrible takes in Guercino's work far lower flights than in the Sistine Chapel. With Michelangelo it soared like an eagle; with Guercino it flitted like a bat. His brawny ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
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